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Business layer Strategy elements

Business Business Business Business Business Course of

Business Actor Business Event Business Object Representation Resource Capability Action
Collaboration Service Service Interaction Event

An aggregate of two or more business internal A unit of collective business behavior performed A concept used A perceptible form An approach or plan for configuring some
A business entity that is capable of performing active structure elements that work together to by (a collaboration of) two or more business A business behavior element that denotes an within a particular of the information An asset owned or controlled by an individual or An ability that an active structure element, such capabilities and resources of the enterprise,
behavior perform collective behavior An explicitly defined exposed business behavior roles organizational state change business domain carried by a b. object organization as an organization, person, or system, possesses undertaken to achieve a goal

Business Business Business Business

Business Role
Role
A responsibility for performing specific behavior,
to which an actor can be assigned, or the part an
actor plays in a particular action or event.
Application layer
Interface
A point of access where a business service is
made available to the environment
Process Function Product Contract A formal or informal
specification of an Motivation elements
A coherent agreement between
collection of a provider and a
A sequence of business behaviors that achieves A collection of business behavior based on a services and/or passive structure elements, consumer that specifies the rights and obligations
a specific outcome such as a defined set of chosen set of criteria (typically required business accompanied by a contract/set of agreements, associated with a product and establishes functional
products or business services resources and/or competences) which is offered as a whole to customers and non-functional parameters for interaction Stakeholder Driver Assessment
An external or
internal
The role of an individual, team, or organization condition that motivates an organization to
(or classes thereof) that represents their define its goals and implement the changes The result of an analysis of the state of affairs of
interests in the outcome of the architecture necessary to achieve them the enterprise with respect to some driver

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Application Application Application Application Application Application Application Application
Data Object Goal Outcome Principle
Component Component Collaboration Service Service Interaction Event Event

An encapsulation of application functionality
aligned to implementation structure, which is
modular and replaceable. It encapsulates its
behavior and data, exposes services, and makes
them available through interfaces.
An aggregate of two or more application A unit of collective application behavior A high-level statement of intent, direction, or
components that work together to perform An explicitly defined exposed application performed by (a collaboration of) two or more An application behavior element that denotes a desired end state for an organization and its A qualitative statement of intent that should be
collective application behavior. behavior application components state change Data structured for automated processing stakeholders An end result that has been achieved met by the architecture

Application Application Application

Requirement Requirement Constraint Constraint Meaning
Interface Process Function

A point of access where application services are The knowledge or expertise present in, or the
made available to a user, another application A sequence of application behaviors that An automated behavior that can be performed A statement of need that must be met by the A factor that prevents or obstructs the interpretation given to, a core element in a
component, or a node achieves a specific outcome by an application component architecture realization of goals particular context

Value
Technology layer

The relative worth, utility, or importance of a

Technology Technology Technology Technology Technology Technology core element or an outcome
Node Node Artifact Artifact
Collaboration Service Service Interaction Event Event

A computational or physical resource that hosts, An aggregate of two or more nodes that work A unit of collective technology behavior A piece of data that is used or produced in a
manipulates, or interacts with other together to perform collective technology An explicitly defined exposed technology performed by (a collaboration of) two or more A technology behavior element that denotes a software development process, or by deployment
computational or physical resources behavior behavior nodes state change and operation of an IT system
Implementation and Migration elements

Device Technology Technology Technology Deliverable Implementation Implementation

Device Work Package event
Interface Process Function Event

A physical IT resource upon which system A series of actions identified and designed to
software and artifacts may be stored or A point of access where technology services A sequence of technology behaviors that A collection of technology behavior that can be achieve specific results within specified time and A behavior element that denotes a state change
deployed for execution offered by a node can be accessed achieves a specific outcome performed by a node resource constraints A precisely-defined outcome of a work package related to implementation or migration

System System Gap

Software Software
Software that provides or contributes to an
environment for storing, executing, and using
software or data deployed within it
Path Plateau
Physical elements
A link between two or more nodes, through
which these nodes can exchange data or A relatively stable state of the architecture that
material exists during a limited period of time A statement of difference between two plateaus

Distribution
Equipment Facility Material
Network
A set of structures and behaviors that connects
Communication computer systems or other electronic devices
for transmission, routing, and reception of data One or more physical machines, tools, or
Network or data-based communications such as voice instruments that can create, use, store, move, or A physical network used to transport materials
and video transform materials A physical structure or environment or energy Tangible physical matter or physical elements

Relationships Composite elements

training and consulting services
Structural Dependency Dynamic Other Grouping
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Location
Composition Assignment Serving Influence Triggering Association Junction (and)
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Aggregation Realization Access Flow Specialization Junction (or) A place or position where structure elements Aggregates or composes concepts that belong
can be located or behavior can be performed together based on some common characteristic

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